MormonTimes.com: Believing means doing, Elder Jensen says

Published: Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 5:22 p.m. MDT
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Elder Marlin K. Jensen spoke to Utah State University Institute of Religion students Friday, sharing with them the importance of the relationship in the LDS Church between believing and doing.

As part of the weekly Religion in Life Devotional series, Elder Jensen, a member of the Quorums of Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and executive director of the church's History Department, told students of an academic person who died and went to heaven. Once there, the person came upon two signs. One, pointing left, said, "Heaven: This way"; the other, pointing right, saying, "Lecture on Heaven: This way."

"I'll leave it up to you to decide which direction the academic took," Elder Jensen said.

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Yes,it is not enough to go through the motions of attending church…

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Elder Jensen is absolutely right. The Epistle of James makes the…

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